After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said the new government needed to account for the flaws in human nature.
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While discord exists over the meaning of the 250th anniversary, Americans strongly believe there is more that unites the country than divides it.
A new survey shows Australians have made their mind up on Donald Trump and are questioning why Australia needs its closest ally.
Britain controlled vast tracts in North America beyond the original 13 Colonies. And the American invasion of Canada played a role in the final political settlement.
President Donald Trump’s capital redesign follows centuries of debate and discussion about how Washington should look to the world.
A partisan judiciary, arbitrary power, officials beyond the reach of the people – these are the grievances that drove a revolution.
You know how important the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were to making the United States. But do you know about The Federalist and the crucial role it played in the founding era?
Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon within a decade.
The founding generation in America was not of one mind. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson differed on crucial ideas, but exemplify the capacity for people to disagree and yet work for a common cause.
Debates about religion’s role in America often circle back to the country’s founding documents.
The Declaration of Independence isn’t just a philosophical breakup letter. It was a strategic move to secure vital support for America after its first declaration of war.
Whether the American Dream is centered in economic mobility or personal freedom, many citizens believe its achievement has grown more elusive.
From ancient Rome to Napoleon’s Paris, the triumphal arch has long memorialised imperial dreams. Is Donald Trump on track to realise his own in Washington?
Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.
Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new visions for the country’s future.
President George Washington warned in his 1796 Farewell Address about dangers that lay ahead for the US – warnings that seem startlingly contemporary and relevant 229 years later.
For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a wounded, fearful society, teetering on the brink of disaster. Sound familiar?
Hailed as a returning hero, the Marquis de Lafayette made a grand tour of the US in 1824-25, just before the country’s 50th birthday.
The most meaningful check on presidential power in the Trump era will be political. That’s because courts rely on the broader political system for enforcement.
The first widespread agreement across the American Colonies dealt with economic independence from British trade and taxation.
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Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
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Professor of History, University of South Carolina
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William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, emerita, Smith College
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Teaching Professor of American Studies, Miami University
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Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
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Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Associate Teaching Professor in Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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Provost Professor of Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Music, University of Dayton
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Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Richmond
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Instructor, Department of History, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of History, Deakin University
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Professor of History and Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney